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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

As a computer scientist going through medical training, I felt trapped doing repeatable tasks that could be automated instead of delivering compassionate care to every person who needed it. In the coming years, I expect to see many more companies working to solve this problem.

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Future Of Wound Care: Home Health Providers Step Up To Meet Rising Demand

Home Health Care

Amedisys, headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, provides home health care, hospice, palliative care and high-acuity care services across 38 states. Delivering care in patient homes eliminates barriers that hinder proper healing by ensuring accessibility.

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Unleashing the Power of Protocols in Critical Care

HIT Consultant

Many clinical practice groups have developed consensus-based enteral feeding protocols for nutrition management to provide evidence-based care with less variability. The starting point of every improvement journey is good, quality data.

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Despite Current Concerns, AI in Healthcare Has A Long History

HIT Consultant

It was developed in 1972 and widely adopted in clinical practice in the 1980s and 1990s. Examples of this technology in motion include: The pulse oximeter , also called a plethysmograph or pleth, uses AI to calculate blood oxygen saturation based on the difference in transmission of red and infrared light in pulsating blood.

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MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and Flatiron Health Partner to Deliver Advanced Cancer Care

HIT Consultant

Gain real-time access to open clinical trials – Patients can be efficiently matched to potentially life-saving research opportunities. said James Hamrick, MD, Vice President of Clinical Oncology at Flatiron Health.

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Improving Oral Health Access through Managed Care Quality Initiatives in Pennsylvania

NASHP

As highlighted in a 2020 Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services informational bulletin , Pennsylvania Medicaid has improved oral health access and quality of care by requiring MCOs to hire a dental director and execute performance improvement projects (PIPs) for pediatric preventative dental care.

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Latest Update on NCQA Kidney Health Evaluation for Patients With Diabetes (KED) Measure Specification: Conformant Tests

NCQA

NCQA welcomes inquiries from potential collaborating organizations, and from organizations that may be willing to fund development of new measures that cover all aspects of the quality of care, access, equity and experience across the patient journey. NCQA does not create clinical practice guidelines.